Installing a successful management control system in a small business requires planning and the involvement of the managers and affected employees. When managers have the financial, production ...

Focusing on a sample of US retailers, I study the management control systems (MCS) that firms introduce when they first invest in controls, and identify four categories of initial MCS, which are ...

Serial Multi-Echelon System Supply chain management can be regarded as being composed of different stages that represent physical locations, processing activities and/or bill of materials, or BOM.

Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 23, No. 11 (Nov., 2002), pp. 1019-1031 (13 pages) The relationship between management control systems (MCS) and the strategy process is a largely unexplored area of ...

This paper attempts to study the financial risk management and control system of shipping companies for improving their operation and investment efficiency. To this end, selecting Z shipping company ...